U.S. officials may have killedAl JazeerajournalistSirene Abuakureby shooting fromIsraelicamp "The State Department said on Monday that her shooting was intentional.
State Department spokesman Ned Price said in a statement," he concluded. The finding was not a definitive test by an independent ballistics expert in the United States monitoring bullet fragments recovered from Abu Acre's body.
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{21 "Price, whose bullet was decided by a ballistic expert, was so damaged that he couldn't make a definite conclusion about who fired," he said in a statement.A well-known veteran correspondent in the Arab world and a citizen of the United States and Palestine, Abu Acre, an Israeli army on May 11 at the Genin refugee camp on the west bank of the occupied Jordan River. Was shot dead while reporting on the attack on Israel. Palestinian witnesses, including her crew, say Israeli troops have killed her and there are no militants in the immediate vicinity of her.
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Israel was killed during a complex battle with Palestinian militants, and only a forensic analysis of the bullet was that it was an Israeli soldier or Palestinian. It says it will check to see if it was fired by a militant. She strongly denies that she was deliberately targeted, but states that Israeli soldiers may have accidentally hit her while exchanging fire with her militants. ..
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US security officials have investigated the findings of both Palestine and Israel and said, "From an IDF standpoint. He concluded that the shooting was likely the cause. The death of Sirene Abu Acre, "Price said.
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The results of the investigation as part of an independent investigation of a statement that the Israeli army has categorically rejected Israel's role in the investigation and is likely to offend the Palestinian Authority, which refused to share bullets with Israeli authorities.
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Army, Israeli experts at the Institute of Forensic Medicine, although bullets are under the control of US authorities throughout the process In Israel said it was investigated by.
When Al Jazeera journalist Sirene Abu Acre is mourning, what's next to her death investigation? Army Chief of Staff Lieutenant General Aviv Kohabi ordered the investigation to continue "by all means", the military said in a statement. Stated. He said the decision to start a criminal investigation would only be made after the investigation was completed.
The Palestinian Authority and Al Jazeera have accused Israeli forces of deliberately targeting them within hours of Abu Acre's death.
Associated Press reconstruction of her killingsupports explanations by Palestinian witnesses (including her crew) that she was killed by Israeli troops. did. Subsequent investigations by CNN, The New York Times, and The Washington Post reached similar conclusions.
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Klaus reported from Ottawa, Ontario. Jerusalem's Associated Press correspondent Iran Ben Zion contributed to this report.
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